Walt Disney World will host dozens of portraits of service members and veterans from the nation’s Painter-in-Chief. The George W. Bush Institute is loaning the 60 color portraits by the former U.S. president to the Florida theme park resort.
While the U.S. military used Agent Orange to defoliate the jungles of Vietnam and adjoining countries, it was contaminating the land and waters of coastal California with the same chemicals, according to documents.
A retired lieutenant colonel was arraigned in a Fort Belvoir, Va., courtroom this month on a charge that he sexually assaulted a major in 2022 — using a rarely employed authority of the military legal system to prosecute officers in retirement.
Bruce Coval Meneley, who retired in 2016 as a Navy captain having earned dozens of awards and commendations, died when he was shot multiple times by police at a DoubleTree hotel in a suburb south of Seattle.
A new rule that makes tens of thousands of veterans eligible for benefits previously denied because of less than honorable discharges does not go far enough in providing a clear path for accessing services, according to veterans’ advocacy groups.
J. Gary Cooper, the first Black officer in the Marine Corps to lead an infantry company into combat, died Saturday at age 87.
Frank Fogarty knew nothing about nuclear physics on ships when he got pulled from his Korean War submarine duty to interview for a fledgling U.S. Navy program. But by 1957, Fogarty had joined the USS Nautilus crew — first as an engineering officer, and then during 1963-67 as the Nautilus’ fifth commanding officer.
In a case that could have significant implications for those who serve in the military, the Supreme Court will weigh a matter involving two veterans who argue they were improperly denied medical benefits for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder related to their service.
Congress gave a lying in honor ceremony at the Capitol to Ralph Puckett Jr., who led an outnumbered company in battle during the Korean War and was the last surviving veteran of that war to receive the Medal of Honor.
Tony Grinston may have retired from the Army as the service’s top enlisted member, yet in his new job as CEO of Army Emergency Relief, he’s still improving the lives of soldiers.